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10.07.08 Thursday.
Aubiac to La Romieu.
A very good night's sleep in our little suite in the La Metairie du Chateau, and a chance to chat with M. Marraud in the morning. He is the facteur or manager for the chateau estate, his uncle and aunt still live in the chateau and a good part of the old chateau outbuildings are converted very well for functions, such as weddings and the computer seminar we gatecrashed accidentally yesterday. They had to go to Toulouse yesterday to deliver a school exchange student back to his flight home to Spain. Unfortunately Easy Jet cancelled it.
Geoff has sensibly decided to head slowly for home walking back to Agen today for a train to catch for his flight from Bordeaux on Saturday. We also said goodbye to a magnificent Mastif with arthritis who is old now at twelve and sleeps most of the time.
We set off about 07:45 and the day rapidly warmed up, we did some miles of mixed road and farm track until we rejoined the GR mid morning and followed it into a great little ghost village called Pouy Rochelaure, where in the shelter of some chestnut trees with a red squirrel in residence we had lunch and cooled from fiery to merely warm over an hour and a half. The tap at the back of the church was a great help.
We then flogged on for a total of 17 miles to the campsite at La Romieu (the final few miles being on a very easy gradient into the village across fields), which we entered by the back door as in the previous site owned by this big campsite company, that we used in the upper Dordongne. The site has everything including a pool which helped the cooling off and we then tried to get some information about the next few days campsites both from the campsite office and the tourist office in the village, both of whom were very helpful and with useful information, how accurate this is on the ground remains to be seen.
We are now still waiting at 18:30 for the day to cool down before cooking, apparently the forecast is for cooler weather soon, we do hope so.